Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the theme tune at last month 's revolutionary rallies , where the crowds sang it with great gusto and clapped to the jaunty rhythm of its concluding lines . |
| 2 | The Times caressed us with recondite information : no Pakistani batsman had made a century at Headingley ; Pakistan bowled their 100th no-ball in the series ( Wasim Akram , not out 63 ) . |
| 3 | The eyes lanced hers with swift rage and her pulses raced . |
| 4 | In their turn the Norwegians accepted him as one of themselves ; it was they who named him the ‘ father of Norwegian mountaineering ’ . |
| 5 | The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives . |
| 6 | But the Australians imported them in large numbers . |
| 7 | Strains developed over the migration of the ‘ vyezzhye belye Kalmyki ’ to Russian territory , since the prince of the Teleuts regarded them as traitorous subjects and demanded their return . |
| 8 | Perhaps the Minoans regarded them as fearful intermediaries — essential but frightening go-betweens . |
| 9 | A speedy journey in the boats took us to one of the 365 islands in Lough Erne . |
| 10 | And then he gave order that all the windows of the towers which looked in upon the town should be closed up , that the Christians might not see what the Moors did in their houses ; and the Moors thanked him for this greatly . |
| 11 | The serveuses reminded me of those I had seen in paintings by Monet . |
| 12 | God and the saints remembered her at last . ’ |
| 13 | The servants had theirs at two , gathered round the scrubbed table in the big kitchen . |
| 14 | He did n't see much more of Tina and the teachers treated him with gentle sympathy , almost as if he were an invalid . |
| 15 | But after Habitat set about educating them to the advantages of the idea , the Americans adopted it with tremendous enthusiasm . |
| 16 | Next , they offered to pay the woman of the house for the milk , and she asked a shilling , at which some of the men goaded her towards more ; when she refused to raise her price , Boswell gave her a half-crown ( influenced , I feel , not so much by her honest generosity , but by her shapeliness which he described as ‘ comely almost as the figure of Sappho ’ ) . |
| 17 | The children viewed him with wary respect , since , in spite of his air of benignity , he frequently exploded when faced with old chewing-gum stuck under the pews , the choir guardedly shooting craps during the sermon , and similar juvenile straying from the path of righteousness . |
| 18 | The children baited her into further wrath until , just as suddenly , she would snap out of it again and return to her former , demure self . |
| 19 | I mean , the Sex Pistols took it from The Stooges , the Stones took it from Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker , and the Beatles … |
| 20 | Ariel was n't thinking clearly , her brain was fogged by the din around her and the rage of Sycorax , but the message in the stones summoned her to some action , something to break the silence and the stasis that held her prisoner . |
| 21 | It cost him his papers , the Czechs bounced them in 1981 while Dr. Tomlin was visiting fellow academics in Oxford . |
| 22 | No eyes beheld them for any of its windows ; no one beat a carpet or scraped a cauldron or swilled out their slops . |